00:00Nigeria Authority in Charge of War Against Substance Abuse, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has arrested and detained a Chinese citizen, Liang Taku, after he was caught with 26.10 kg of laud he allegedly imported from Thailand.
00:17According to NDLEA, the Chinese businessman was arrested in addition to other suspects who concealed cannabis inside Moimoi Sachet and laud consignments in processed food cans from Canada, others in Lagos, Cross River, Edo, Ondo, Nasarawa, Borno, Niger, Ogun, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi during separate raids of the illicit drug criminal suspects.
00:44Details of the NDLEA report reads verbatim below.
01:14The suspect, who arrived Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai, UAE, on Emirates airline flight, is a Chinese national, naturalized and based in Malaysia.
01:19The suspect, who arrived Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai, UAE, on Emirates airline flight, is a Chinese national, naturalized and based in Malaysia.
01:29But flew to Thailand where he picked two suitcases filled with 50 parcels of laud weighing 26.10 kg before heading to Nigeria via UAE.
01:36Upon his arrival at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives who were tracking his movement from his port of departure allowed him to pass through necessary protocols before picking him up on his way.
01:43The oxygenarian grandma of the airport on the airport, the octogenarian grandma, Mrs. Grace Ekpeme was arrested at EDANN.
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02:13S.A. Street, base site, Calabar South, Cross River State with over 3 kg skunk in the early
02:19hours of Saturday 26 July following intelligence on her drug-dealing activities.
02:26In Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday 23 July intercepted a suspect Chidi Agbar Fowlong
02:33Epa, Arger Expressway while taking consignments of 21.7 kg Colorado, some of which were packaged
02:41in Moy Moy cooking sachets and 3.8 liters of codeine-based syrup in a commercial bus to
02:47deliver in Wari and O'Gara, Delta State. At the Apapa seaport in Lagos, a total of 101 kg Canadian
02:55Loud Factory packed in 202 tins of imported food item labeled bean salad mix and concealed
03:02in two Toyota Sienna buses in a container that came from Canada, were recovered. The discovery
03:08was made during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA officers, men of Customs Service
03:15and other security agencies on Friday 25 July. No fewer than 71,000 pills of tramadol, diazepam
03:24and EXOL5 were recovered from Usman Moussa by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Abuja Kaduna
03:31Highway on Wednesday 23 July when the suspect was traveling with the consignment of opioids
03:37in a commercial bus going to Kano. In Borno, a 30-year-old Lady Binta Osman was on Wednesday
03:4423 July arrested by NDLEA officers who recovered 30.1 kg skunk from her house at Muna Moforo area
03:52of Meduguri. A follow-up operation later led to the arrest of her accomplice Bala Abdullahi
03:59in the same area of the Borno State Capitol on Friday 25 July. Three brothers, Nana Osirine,
04:06Chizom Osirine and Maxwell Osirine were on Saturday 26 July arrested when NDLEA operatives raided
04:15a cannabis plantation at Bending Corner Forest, Idoani, O's local council area of Ondo State where
04:21they destroyed 2,500 kg of skunk on an hectare of land and recovered already processed 121.4 kg of same
04:31psychoactive substance. In Edo State, NDLEA offices on Wednesday 23 July raided the Asakba community in
04:40Benin City, where they arrested a 26-year-old Lady Bright. Sunday Oconon recovered various quantities of
04:47Colorado, Loud, Arizona and Skunk, all strains of cannabis as well as methamphetamine from her.
04:55While a total of 105.4 kg skunk was recovered by NDLEA operatives from an abandoned Honda car marked
05:03ABC 204 km in Kefi, Nasarawa State, their counterparts in Niger State on Monday 21 July arrested a suspect
05:13Bashir Abdullahi with 6,400 pills of tramadol 225 mg at Kasuan Gwari area of Minna, even as a notorious drug
05:24dealer Jamiu Omolaja was taken into custody and 113 kg skunk retrieved from his enclave in a foe,
05:31Hogan State on Thursday 24 July after a violent resistance and attack on NDLEA operatives by members of
05:39his gang. A total of 10,910 capsules of tramadol were seized from a suspect Adamu Adamu, a.k.a.
05:48Dankiado, by NDLEA officers on patrol along Gombe Bajoga Road, Gombe State on Saturday 26 July, while
05:58operatives in Kogi State on Thursday 24 July intercepted a consignment of skunk concealed inside
06:05gari, dried scent leaves, and other food items along Akene-Lakoja Highway. A follow-up operation
06:12in Abuja led to the arrest of 27-year-old Kindness Bala who was planning to travel to Katsina State
06:18with the cargo and later to Qatar. Similarly, operatives in Kogi on Saturday 26 July recovered
06:2623,600 pills of tramadol, 300 ampoules of pentatocene injection and 700 grams of skunk from a truck at a
06:34motor park in Ihingba area of the state. The war against drug abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities
06:42by NDLEA commands equally continued across the country in the past week. Some of them include,
06:49WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of Komu, Babarode High School, Babarode,
06:56Itisawaju Local Government Area, Oyo State, Beacon Christian Academy, Ngodo, Afikpo Local Government
07:04Area, Abonyi, Government Day Secondary School, Araba, Alela, Sokato, and Government Junior College,
07:12Agege, Lagos. While the Anamra State Command of NDLEA paid WADA advocacy visit to the traditional
07:20rulers of Orko community, Obi Gibson in Wosu, Ezuzu 11 and Akpo community, Igwe Robert Ez,
07:27Okofiavi, among others. While commending the officers and men of MMIA, Apapa, Lagos, Cross River, Edo,
07:37Ondo, Nasarawa, Borno, Niger, Ogun, Gombe, Kaduna and Kogi Commands of the Agency for the Arrests
07:45and Seizures of the Past Week, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General
07:52Mohammed Baba Mawa, retired, praised their counterparts in all the commands across the
07:57country for pursuing a fair balance between the drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction
08:03efforts, Femi Baba Femi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA stated on Sunday the 27th of July 2025.
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